Born: Yasser Arafat was born in 1929.
1956: Joined the reserve officers of the Egyptian Army and fought against the tri-partite aggression on Egypt.
1953: Joined early in his youth, the Palestine National Movement as represented by the League of Palestinian Students 1944, and chaired it later on.
1958: Formed “Fatah” movement together with other brothers and was declared its spokesman
1973: Commander in Chief of the forces of the Palestinian Revolution.
(Source of pics: Palestinian archives)